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Sometimes when we’re staying somewhere for more than a few days (and when we’re lucky)—the weekend campers are gone, we’re done with our mystery trips to the local grocery store and laundromat—and we can explore and relax in peace. That’s the sweet spot. I’m thinking we’re in the sour spot …
“Can I tell you about the book I’m reading?” “Did I tell you the funny story about those friends?” “Tell me more about what you want to do.” “Could you tell me how to do that?” The simple story goes: I stayed with Finn for the first half of his …
I am busting with ideas about a book I just read and a movie I just saw, and what the two pieces of art mean to me, and how to express any of it in a post. One interesting thread I’d like to pull is using other people’s lyrics to …
We’re coming up on five years, which, I know, doesn’t sound like much. But this has been five years of living in 200 square feet, of going to so many places (we’ve stayed in maybe 300 spots?), of navigating through weird situations and beautiful ones. Here’s a list of surprising …
It’s Christmas Eve here in Brownsville, and I’d planned on going to the cocktail party at the RV park clubhouse this evening, but the holiday blues are upon me. It doesn’t help that I cleaned everyone out of pocket money during Card Bingo last night in a freak string of …
We spent the Saturday before Christmas in downtown Brownsville for a full immersion in all things that are weird here. It was fabulous. The Christmas Village in the park by the zoo was deserted in the broad daylight, just the way we like it. The food trucks were closed up, …
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I feel like I’m in a Star Trek episode where the transporter has malfunctioned (in the future no one says, “broken”), and I’m stuck between two planets. It’s not as bad as the time in The Next Generation when Geordie and Ro got stuck walking around the Enterprise like ghosts …
This is where we live this week. It’s just a site by a lake, in the woods, on the upper peninsula of Michigan. Nothing exotic: it’s not the Keys or the Utah Arches, just a lake. But reflecting on this spot this morning once again confirmed why I’m living this …
Just about this time a couple of years ago, Tracy and I were sitting in his living room in Maryland, watching the YouTube channel of Airstreamers we liked to watch. They were pulling into this exact Florida state park we’re in now (Tomoka, north of Daytona). On the TV, as …
I have a billion photos of our weekend here at Williamsburg as I celebrated my son’s graduation from William & Mary—with Tracy and with Finn’s dad and his big family. My first blogging instinct is to narrate the weekend with all those photos; it has been bright and busy and …
Tracy says it’s been ten days only that we’ve been camping without cell signal, and in truth it’s not been more than two consecutive days, since we’ll drive out to download email pretty frequently. But when I check my calendar and my social soul, it feels for sure like three …
I’ve a friend who lives in her Airstream but travels less than we do; she and her husband own a parking pad in a little Airstream community that they use as a home base. So we share quite a bit in terms of lifestyle, but we also live very differently …
Sundry
Creating tiny houses from kits is a hobby I started in the Airstream because it’s small and quiet (so I can do it at night while I’m awake and Tracy’s asleep). I am now obsessed. Quick View of All Here’s a slideshow of nearly all the Tiny Houses I’ve made …
This is a series of personal posts about grief and family, by me and my guest writers. Some of these were very very hard to write, and friends tell me they’re hard to read. Others I wrote real quick-like, mainly to fill in gaps in my life and to reveal …
I’m fortunate to include frequent writers other than myself, occasional guest submissions, and sets of links to other blogs that are relevant to mine. Here are the regular contributors: Shana and Marcus Click here for all of Shana and Marcus’ posts. We are a post-pandemic retired duo who decided society …
More Recent Posts
- The Nomad Witching Hour Is Upon Us
- How Many Stories Can We Tell?
- Tangled up in Lyrics
- Surprises from Life on the Road
- Merry Christmas, from Warmth and Sunshine!
- Pre-Christmas in Brownsville, with Mangos and Beer
- Medical Mystery Tour Wiki
- On Hearing the Palm Fronds Rustle
- Still Catching Our Collective Breath
- Friends at the Heart of 2024
- Rest, Hydrate, Recoup, Repeat
- Our Impossible 11-hour Travel Day
- Wherein We Act Out Alice’s Restaurant Massacree
- On the Beach, the Crowded, Chilly, Still-It’s-a-Beach Beach
- Crowded Beach Spots vs. Empty Campground
- Get Your Banjo Wall Calendar Here
- Neither Fire Ants nor Boy Scouts Stays These Campers from Enjoying the Beach
- Where Salt Marsh Meets the Sea
- On the Border of Isengard
- Blogging in Dark Times, Redux
- In Anticipation of the Day After
- GDTR Press Clippings
- Birthdays on the Road: You Win Some, You Lose Some
- My Least-favorite Part of Full-timing
- Moments of Silly > All Else
- Your Daily Banjo Vol 2
- Big Boy, Pelicans, Airstreamers We Can’t Shake
- What Rallies Are Really About
- Airstream Rally: Early Halloween, Seminars, Clubs, Libations, Oh My
- Airstream Rally Day 1 Photo Recap
- Airstream Rally Initial Impressions (In Short: “Dude!”)
- Ready to Rally, in Our Own Way
- The Unexpected Allure of the Midwest
- Doing All the -ings on the Turkey River
- Deer Butts, Meet-ups, Hard up in Madison
- How Do You Go to the ER at 3am When the Campground Gate Is Locked?
- In Finn’s Town
- Choosing a Campsite When You Anticipate Neighbors
- Messing Around Our Mothership Appointment
- Indiana Dunes National Park